James West Clark

James West Clark (15 October 1779-20 December 1843) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 3) from 1815 to 1817, succeeding William Kennedy and preceding Thomas H. Hill.

Biography
James West Clark was born in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1779, and he served in the House of Commons from 1802 to 1803 and in 1811, as a James Madison presidential elector in 1812, in the State Senate from 1812 to 1814, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, and as Chief Clerk of the Navy Department from 1829 to 1831. In 1835, he moved to Livingston, Alabama, but he died in Tarboro, North Carolina in 1843. His son Henry Toole Clark served as Governor of North Carolina during the American Civil War.